Obsidian installed via nix issue: system aborts because of sandbox issues
$ obsidian The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I’m aborting now. You need to make sure that /nix/store/b839r5g9ywf4fkama8zah8r55nwbzmky-electron-31.4.0/libexec/electron/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755. zsh: trace trap (core dumped) obsidian
Cause: Ubuntu 24.04 has apparmor enabled by default
solution: for one session:
echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_usernspermanently disable restrictions:
echo "kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=0" >> /etc/sysctl.d/60-apparmor-namespace.conffor specific app:
ref: nix issue solution ubuntu docs